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“A World Apart” is both political and personal – a view of a revolutionary as the middle-class mother of a normal 13-year-old girl. The girl’s name is Molly (Jodhi May), and the film opens with episodes from her typical childhood in an affluent white South African community.
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A World Apart is a 1988 anti-apartheid drama film directed by Chris Menges, and starring Barbara Hershey, David Suchet, Jeroen Krabbé, Paul Freeman, Tim Roth and Jodhi May. Written by Shawn Slovo, it is based on the lives of Slovo's parents, Ruth First and Joe Slovo.
A World Apart ★★★½ 1988 (PG) Cinematographer Menges' first directoral effort is a blistering, insightful drama told from the point of view of a 13-year-old white girl living in South Africa , oblivious to apartheid until her crusading journalist mother is arrested under the 90-Day Detention Act, under which she might remain in prison ...
A World Apart is a 1988 film based on the life of Ruth First, the South African anti-apartheid activist and scholar who was one of 156 Congress Alliance members found guilty in the treason trials of the late 1950s and early 60s.
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- Atlantic Entertainment Group
- Chris Menges
Thirteen year old Molly Roth, the eldest of three offspring of Gus and Diana Roth, lives a carefree life as part of the affluent white minority in South Africa. Race is a non-issue for her as although, under apartheid, the Roths largely exist among other white people like t... Read all.
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- Drama
- Chris Menges
- 1988-06-17
In the 1960's Johannesburg, the 13 year-old Molly (Jodhi May) tries to understand the world around her, a world of segregation where whites have everything and blacks don't have anything but following the racist laws created by the British where rights are denied, no public meetings are allowed, protests are deemed illegal and people are sent ...
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1963. The Roth family are far from content with the status quo in Zimbabwe. They take it upon themselves to protest against the apartheid that rules their society, only to be turned into easy...
